!!! OK, SO I GOT A BIT DISTRACTED. THE "NEW" SONG IS UP...FINALLY.....!!!
THANKS TO 'TOOLBOX' PAUL, AND RAE ...SO NOW, GO DRINK A BEER AND CRANK THE TUNES ...
OFFICIAL HAMMERBOIZ MYSPACE!
Hamilton has always been the heavy industry capital of Canada. Although the city had a tradition of producing "punk rock" pioneers in the 1970's, including Teenage Head and the Forgotten Rebels, these and other subsequent bands were cultural by-products of the industrial environment, kids who felt different in a working class town. Not until 1997 did the Hamilton scene produce a band that chose not to whine from society's sidelines but to proudly embrace it's working class identity.The Hammer Boiz as individuals knew one another through years of running into each other at pubs, gigs, parties in the "Hammer" (a.k.a. Hamilton). Because they found themselves unhappy in, or thrown out of other bands for various reasons, they decided to start a band that would be more about booze and fun than anything else. Booze and fun for them, and booze and fun for their ever widening circle of friends.Early Hammerboiz shows featured "punk" and "Oi!" classics that crowds could sing along with, beer in hand after a hard week at work. The Hammerboiz only did shows on weekends in the belief that neither them, nor their friends should go to work with a hangover. Cover songs were personalized such that the audience could sing along with familiar tunes albeit with new, more relevant lyrics. Cock Sparrer's "England belongs to me" become "Steeltown belongs to me" and so on. At Hammerboiz shows throughout Ontario, crowds loyally came to drink, sing along and be part of the event.
The Boiz are loved around the world!